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Originally Posted by FurnaceFace
The best thing about this thread is it has reminded me I haven't backed up my photos and such for a long time and I'm going home to do this tonight. I used to dump them to my wife's PC but she's running a laptop now so that's not as practical.
Bobble makes a good point about RAID. A couple of hundred bucks is pretty much worth the insurance....perhaps I should look at NAS options...
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Just remember that RAID only protects against mechanical or electronic failure. If you screw up and wipe the drive, or if a virus wipes the drive, or if Windows craps the bed and blows up the partition, those changes are faithfully mirrored to both drives.
You want the redundancy of RAID coupled with the safety net of a second copy stored somewhere else.